Olivia Newton-John was candid about her ideas on dying and the afterlife.
The Grease actress and singer, who died Monday on the age of 73, spoke about her mortality on the A Lifetime of Greatness podcast a yr earlier than her dying. Newton-John battled breast most cancers for 30 years.
Requested within the February 2021 dialog if she had contemplated her personal dying, she replied, “I’ve fairly a number of occasions,” including it was “ahead of I’d have wished,” having first been recognized in 1992 after which revealing publicly in 2018 that her stage IV breast most cancers had unfold to her again.
“I imply — everyone knows we’re going to die,” the Australia star stated. “I believe we spend our lives in all probability a lot in denial of it.”
She continued, “What I really feel about this can be very private, so I discover it exhausting to place into phrases. I imagine that we’re all a part of one factor. I’ve had experiences with — how can I put it? — spirits or spirit life or felt the spirit world or have heard issues that I imagine there’s something that occurs. It is nearly like we’re elements of the an enormous laptop and we return to the primary battery. I haven’t got a particular definition of what it’s. Some individuals name it ‘heaven.’ Some name it ‘the universe.’ I simply assume there’s a nice knowingness on the market that we develop into a part of.”
Newton-John stated she hoped “the energies of the individuals you’re keen on are there,” however believes “all of the love can be there.” In spite of everything, she continued, the individuals she is aware of who’ve had a near-death expertise, together with husband John Easterling, “say it is probably the most unbelievable feeling of affection that you have each skilled and you do not wish to come again.”
“So I am sort of trying ahead to that,” she stated, including with amusing, “Not now however when it occurs.”
She stated of various beliefs of the afterlife, “all of them appear to have the identical ending. Both we come again as one thing else or we go to heaven or we be a part of others within the spirit world. However most people wish to imagine that we go on. I do not know if that is the case. I hope that I can let individuals know when it occurs whether it is.”
Newton-John’s husband introduced her dying on Monday.
Her solely daughter, Chloe Lattanzi, has spoken out.
So has her Grease co-star and pal John Travolta amongst many — many — different tributes.
